18.12-U7 Available

Package update 7 for 18.12-RELEASE is now available.

Trident system changes of note:

The post-install default ZFS block size has been changed to 4KB (ashift=12). This is better for performance, but only impacts new ZFS datasets that are created after this change. No impact for current ZFS system layout.

The “Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation” system control has now been enabled for all Project Trident systems. This should ensure a higher level of security.

This can be disabled once again on individual systems by placing an override into the “/etc/sysctl.conf” conf on your local system.

The legacy “radeon” driver is now supported in the Project Trident automatic GPU loading system. This will ensure that the proper kernel module(s) are loaded if that driver is setup to be used.

The Lumina PDF viewer has had a few significant changes:

It uses the “poppler” libraries for rendering PDF files once again. The “mupdf” backend has been switched off by default because a recent version update to mupdf has completely changed the mupdf library APIs.

The memory issues with large PDF files should now be resolved since lumina-pdf will now only maintain a cache of 5 pages (maximum) in-memory, and will dynamically adjust that cache to maintain instant access to the current page plus the 2 pages ahead/behind of the current page.

Because of the backend renderer change, some additional functionality may no longer be available. We will work on getting all the PDF annotation support re-enabled for the poppler backend in the near future.

Package changes of note:

playonbsd : This application has been missing for a while due to the python switch from 2.x->3.x causing breakage in it’s dependencies, but it looks like that has finally been resolved in FreeBSD and I am pleased to see that this utility is available once again!

noto fonts : The massive “noto” fonts package has been split up into a few smaller packages which can now be individually-installed as desired without conflicts between them.

The main “noto” package is still available, but is now just a meta-package for installing all the individual component packages now, so no changes will be required when upgrading if you are using the “noto” package right now.

The “noto-lite” package has been renamed to “noto-basic” now, so you may need to manually install the “noto-basic” package after doing the installation if the upgrade does not automatically detect the name change.

git : Updated from 2.20.1 to 2.21.0

plasma5 : All the various KDE plasma5 packages have been updated from 5.15.0 to 5.15.2

The system update utility sysup has a new version: 0.6.3 -> 0.6.4

Node Updates:

node : 11.10.0 -> 11.10.1

node10 : 10.15.1 -> 10.15.2

node6 : 6.16.0_1 -> 6.17.0

node8 : 8.15.0 -> 8.15.1

Browser Updates:

chromium : 71.0.3578.98_2 -> 72.0.3626.121_1

falkon : 3.0.0_5 -> 3.0.1_1

firefox : 65.0.1_1,1 -> 65.0.2,1

firefox-esr : 60.5.1,1 -> 60.5.2_1,1

Package Changes From 18.12-RELEASE-U6

For a full list of packages that are available with this release, please visit the download page!